Not so long ago i started to walk around parks in the Western Cape, South Africa.
What a surprise and a wonderfull blessing. All around these parks many tree trunks were lying about some of which had been burned.
I then did a little research into these trees that had died. A few years before 2025 local authorities noted that English Oak and other trees had started to die in what is known as The Helderberg. In this area there are three towns, namely Somerset West, The Strand and Gordon’s Bay all along the False Bay coast.
Wood Borers from Vietnam and surrounding countries had made their way into Somerset West, where they infected the Oak trees.This has now spread to Stellenbosch and the CBD in Cape Town. Many trees have died
and the reserve and park areas have changed greatly. Indigenous trees are now being planted in this area of the Western Cape.
Then my thoughts went back to Isaiah 6, and then to verse thirteen.
Verse thirteen reads as follows.(ESV)
“And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is it’s stump.
Well, how applicable is this to the Western Cape? One hundred percent.
Going back into the History of the Western Cape we find right at its start in sixteen fifty two, people like Freemasons who ruled most of the churches in this area. Later governments moved into slavery, racism, people slaughtering in many different ways. As time went by apartheid stopped. Gang wars have grown and we now have two governments in the province, one the Democratic Alliance and the other Gang Rulers. Abortion is supported. Gays etc,etc are all welcomed from overseas and promoted in the Province. Churches are full of religion and are more interested in supporting the government than what they should be doing. Orphans and widows are ignored.
Church member numbers drop from day to day. The Fear of the Lord has long time gone and the Authority of Christ has disappeared. Business is good and entertainment great even in the Church. Read Isaiah 5!
International tourism is on top of the trading activities in the Cape and increasing every day. Being free and liberal is good. Witchcraft is fine, one religion is fine and Satan worship even better. International evangelists have approached the Cape Province and then turned around? Why? Magicians now have a college in Cape Town as well.
Much more can be said but Isaiah has already done that in Chapters 2 to 6.
I have never heard a sermon on Isaiah 6 verse 13. But i will now start to pray for revival in the Western Cape from today based on verse 13. Please join me.
In verse thirteen we see:
1. Holy
2. Seed
3. Of
4. Hope.
And who is He? King Jesus.
Despite the fact that something is left in the tree stump who locals do not know, is called “The Remnant”.( A few of the followers of Jesus, lead by the Holy Spirit.)
We the followers that are left need to sow the Gospel Seed.
The trees that are dying reflect for me the spiritual state of this Province.
But as verse thirteen states there is more than hope. I have seen some dying Oak trees starting to produce acorns again.